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Oppressively meaning
In an oppressive manner.
Example sentences (15)
But I have been at the beach on several occasions when there was no air movement and the sun was oppressively hot.
Like a bad dream, it's strange, abstract, and sometimes nonsensical, but oppressively eerie in a way that leaves you begging to wake up.
One oppressively hot summer’s day, the window in the office of Mr Meakes, the firm's proprietor, became jammed.
Credit to the production design team though, the oppressively grimey set and costume design keep the film from feeling too much like it belongs on the SyFy channel.
If you add some sugar and some thickeners, it’s not oppressively bean-y.
In Chris Menges’s gorgeously smoky shots of blasted earth and gnashing machinery, spraying explosions and blackened pits, we see an oppressively alien landscape that’s hostile to man and woman alike.
It is in these new rules, and old fractures, constant movements and subtle mutations, of being black in an oppressively white world, where the work of the late David Koloane resides.
From his personal and intimately-scaled debut to his most recent misfire of oppressively shouted cinema It’s Only the End of the World, Dolan has never struggled to express himself.
Local officials should understand that local control is not a blank check, nor is it an excuse for tyrannical policies, like oppressively high property taxes and involuntary annexation.
Sugar plantations were notorious for heavy and dangerous work in oppressively hot weather.
The fall temperatures are a cool blessing and the fall colors are heartbreakingly beautiful as we consider the so-called “migrant caravan” making its way down a dusty highway where conditions are still oppressively hot.
There is no air conditioning to break the oppressively humid air.
For example, the First and Second Estates proceeded into the assembly wearing their finest garments, while the Third Estate was required to wear plain, oppressively somber black, an act of alienation that Louis would likely have not condoned.
June and July are oppressively hot.
Lowland Hispaniola is generally oppressively hot and humid, with temperatures averaging convert with high humidity during the daytime and around convert at night.